Jan Phillips is one of our incredible women who serve as the Advisory Circle of Circle Connections. She is an amazing visionary, daring thinker, and the author of The Art of Original Thinking. I am always touched, and even more, awakened and stretched by what she writes and shares.
In Jan’s most recent Museletter, she wrote, “These are 
remarkable times we’re living in, full of contradiction and contrast and invitations to wholeness and authentic bein g– all the ingredients for creative combustion. Today is the anniversary of the day Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention on women’s rights in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It was the start of the organized women’s rights movement in America and they discussed property rights, divorce and women’s suffrage. It took 72 more years for women to get the vote. What we’re living for, working for, co-creating, is not happening fast, but it IS happening.”
Even though, like all of us, there does not seem to be enough time, I find it a form of meditation to take a break to watch the inspiring clips sent to me, so when Jan suggested these, I knew it was worth the detour from the hours I had spent doing web stuff in preparatio for the release of our refreshed website (coming soon). So, if you have the time, enjoy these…
Jan went on to say,
“We are making our own news, sharing our own stories, spinning our own web of connectedness and communion. We are creating new sacraments of engagement and bestowing them freely and joyfully wherever we go. We are re-pairing the opposites, transcending the dualities, and finding our commonness and strength in the circles we’re creating.”
Jan wrote in the Intro to The Art of Original Thinking,
“As with any creative endeavor, originality in thinking, in being, requires a heightened state of alertness, a bridging of the poles, a show of fearlessness and willingness to forfeit the known for the unknown, the learned for the experienced. It requires a trust deeper than the sea, for what it asks for is a letting go, an unmooring from the safe harbor of certainty for a journey into the mists of mystery and possibility…The solutions to the crises of our time do not lie dormant in one individual. They live like seeds in every one of us. It is not a savior who will rescue us from the plight and perils we face, but a communion of saints who go by our names.”
Thank you Jan, for the part you contribute to the composite that makes up the whole of Circle Connections and inspires us to be ‘original thinkers’.
We are the Saints we have been looking for.
